move towards love - by Spencer Chang - spencer's paradoxes

believing in love is like believing in a religion

Chang Dai-chien, Divine Redwood Trees I'm headed to the Haight for an event with Ryan Lee Wong for his debut novel. It's a rainy Monday night, and I ride into the city on the BART, transferring at Montgomery to the MUNI. I find myself surprised at my wonder towards the whole experience: the efficiency, the details of commuting passengers (a man carries Afterparties stuffed into his backpack's bottle pocket, two discuss the recent tech layoffs and their theories of Elon's plans). When I step off by Beit Rima, there's a woman in a full-body bunny suit waving a "No on J" sign who salutes me as…

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